Thread: Ubuntu bionic (18.04) moving to apt-archive.postgresql.org

Ubuntu bionic (18.04) moving to apt-archive.postgresql.org

From
Christoph Berg
Date:
Bionic has been EOL for a few months now, and building PostgreSQL 16
on bionic turned out to be difficult (among other problems, zstd being
available but too old), so I used that to stop supporting bionic on
apt.postgresql.org. No new builds for that distributions have been
made since July.

bionic-pgdg has now been copied to apt-archive.postgresql.org and will
be removed from apt.postgresql.org at the end of October 2023.

If you are still on bionic (please upgrade!) point your sources.list
entries to https://apt-archive.postgresql.org.

deb https://apt-archive.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bionic-pgdg main

Christoph



Re: Ubuntu bionic (18.04) moving to apt-archive.postgresql.org

From
Don Seiler
Date:
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:12 AM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
Bionic has been EOL for a few months now, and building PostgreSQL 16
on bionic turned out to be difficult (among other problems, zstd being
available but too old), so I used that to stop supporting bionic on
apt.postgresql.org. No new builds for that distributions have been
made since July.

bionic-pgdg has now been copied to apt-archive.postgresql.org and will
be removed from apt.postgresql.org at the end of October 2023.

If you are still on bionic (please upgrade!) point your sources.list
entries to https://apt-archive.postgresql.org.

deb https://apt-archive.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bionic-pgdg main

Would this just be an issue for new installations on bionic? i.e. my current fleet of bionic DB servers would continue to operate, just no updates (which there haven't been any since May anyway)? We're in the middle of our migration to Ubuntu jammy but it'll be a couple months yet.

Don. 
--
Don Seiler
www.seiler.us

Re: Ubuntu bionic (18.04) moving to apt-archive.postgresql.org

From
Christoph Berg
Date:
Re: Don Seiler
> > deb https://apt-archive.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bionic-pgdg main
> 
> Would this just be an issue for new installations on bionic? i.e. my
> current fleet of bionic DB servers would continue to operate, just no
> updates (which there haven't been any since May anyway)? We're in the
> middle of our migration to Ubuntu jammy but it'll be a couple months yet.

New installations should just work with the above sources line.

Christoph



Re: Ubuntu bionic (18.04) moving to apt-archive.postgresql.org

From
Don Seiler
Date:
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 3:18 PM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
Re: Don Seiler
> > deb https://apt-archive.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bionic-pgdg main
>
> Would this just be an issue for new installations on bionic? i.e. my
> current fleet of bionic DB servers would continue to operate, just no
> updates (which there haven't been any since May anyway)? We're in the
> middle of our migration to Ubuntu jammy but it'll be a couple months yet.

New installations should just work with the above sources line.

Yes, of course. I meant to ask if an existing bionic VM with PG already installed and running would see any issues if they don't make any adjustments at all.

Don.
--
Don Seiler
www.seiler.us

Re: Ubuntu bionic (18.04) moving to apt-archive.postgresql.org

From
Aaron Pavely
Date:
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 4:15 PM Don Seiler <don@seiler.us> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 3:18 PM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
Re: Don Seiler
> > deb https://apt-archive.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bionic-pgdg main
>
> Would this just be an issue for new installations on bionic? i.e. my
> current fleet of bionic DB servers would continue to operate, just no
> updates (which there haven't been any since May anyway)? We're in the
> middle of our migration to Ubuntu jammy but it'll be a couple months yet.

New installations should just work with the above sources line.

Yes, of course. I meant to ask if an existing bionic VM with PG already installed and running would see any issues if they don't make any adjustments at all.

This depends. PostgreSQL itself won't mind this one bit, but since the package repository won't exist any longer (i.e., broken), when running 'apt-get update', some processes will take that status as an error in package management.

This may break automation if the automation depends on _all_ repositories functioning properly. For instance, you may see this as an issue if adding the host to Canonical's ESM repositories. Chef/Puppet/Ansible/etc. might not like it, either.
--
Aaron

Re: Ubuntu bionic (18.04) moving to apt-archive.postgresql.org

From
Christoph Berg
Date:
Re: To PostgreSQL in Debian
> Bionic has been EOL for a few months now, and building PostgreSQL 16
> on bionic turned out to be difficult (among other problems, zstd being
> available but too old), so I used that to stop supporting bionic on
> apt.postgresql.org. No new builds for that distributions have been
> made since July.
> 
> bionic-pgdg has now been copied to apt-archive.postgresql.org and will
> be removed from apt.postgresql.org at the end of October 2023.

This has now happened, I just removed bionic and kinetic from the
repository.

Christoph